acixxx problem compiling new kernel 2.4.20

[Joel Hammer]

This is the WalMart special. 
There may be no scsi devices but there are scsi drivers loaded:
lsmod | grep scsi:
ide-scsi                7696   1
scsi_mod               53420   5  [sr_mod ide-scsi usb-storage sd_mod]
ide-mod               153700   4  [ide-cd ide-scsi ide-disk ide-probe-mod]

I have the bad feeling that scsi drivers are being used for various tasks,
not really for scsi devices scsi.  This must be why you need initrd with
this kernel.

Tne kernel (also 2.4.20) that it comes preinstalled  has this in
/lib/modules/kernel/drivers/scsi:
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root           80 Jun 22 15:22 aic7xxx
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root       127076 Jun 19 17:40 aic7xxx_old.o
And, int aic7xx, this:
aic7xxx.o
In modules.dep, this is this entry:
/lib/modules/2.4.20/kernel/drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic7xxx.o: /lib/modules/2.4.20/kernel/drivers/scsi/scsi_mod.o

There must be a reason for this. I'd like to find out.

Joel

 Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 07:15:57PM -0600, Andrew Mathews wrote:
> If this is the Wal-Mart system I doubt if it has any SCSI devices, in
> which case you don't need it. It's the Adaptec SCSI controller card. If
> it *did* come with a SCSI card, I'm going to have to reevaluate Wal-Mart.